In
our table of transcriptions, Lolly Metcalf’s first pronunciation of the word is [ ha·ʔta·was
]², where the [ t ] is specifically voiceless un-aspirated.Then she says the word again as [ ha·ʔta·was
]², where the [ t ] is also specifically voiceless un-aspirated.However, the third time that she says the
word, she pronounces it with a rather robust ejective, as [ ha·ʔtʼa·was ]².That is how
Jacobs heard Annie Miner Peterson pronounce that consonant.It also happens that the third time that
Lolly says the word, she has both a glottal stop before the consonant in
question and she pronounces the consonant in question as an ejective.See the interview segment “Salt” where the
same thing happens, except that we cannot hear whether Lolly is saying the
affricate consonant in that Milluk word as an ejective or not.That, however, may be because in that word it
would be the ejective [ tsʼ ] where the fricative release of the affricate
makes it hard to hear whether it is an ejective or not, unless the ejective is
pronounced very robustly, which is something that Lolly did not do with that
word.

Instant Phonetic Englishization: hah’_t!ah_wahs, for Lolly’s version of the
word, but

hah_t!ah_wahs, for Annie’s.

Listening
to Swadesh:Before Swadesh got Lolly
Metcalf to say the Milluk word meaning ‘shirt’, Swadesh had asked for
‘headband’, asking if it is something like what Swadesh pronounces as [ hɑˑˈdɑˑwɑs
].Swadesh pronounces the word again as [
hɑˑdɑˑˈwɑs ].Swadesh could only have
gotten that pronunciation of the word from Lolly in the earlier part of the
interview before the tape recorded had been turned on.Swadesh pronounces the consonant that we hear
from Lolly as the ejective [ tʼ ] in her third time saying the word, as as
voiced stop [ d ].It is only Swadesh
who we hear pronouncing the ejective with what we call a ‘heavy pronunciation’
of what is otherwise an ejective.As we
say to the left, what Lolly does the first and second times that she say the word is
to pronounce the same consonant as a voiceless un-aspirated stop consonant [ t
].

A Sound Change in Progress: In what we say for the interview
segment “He Knew It”, we describe voiceless un-aspirated stop consonants as
transitional in the sound change in progress in Coos Bay Milluk whereby
ejectives were becoming voiced stops.In
what we say for the interview segment “Morning 2”, we say that what we hear of
the Milluk language from Lolly Metcalf includes the starting point of the sound
change, the end point of the sound change, and transitional pronunciations
along the way, which show up as variation, as the sound change was working it
way through the language’s vocabulary.In the case of the Milluk word meaning ‘shirt’, Lolly has the beginning
point of the sound change in this interview segment and the transitional phase
as variation, but it is only Swadesh who has the end point of the sound
change.That pronunciation, however, is
something that he must have gotten from Lolly, before the tape recorder was
turned on.